Distinguished Lecturer: Gerhard Kramer (TU München). He is a past President of the IEEE IT Society. He gave an enlightening talk on phase noise modeling and its effect on the capacity of communication channels.

Description Activity: The workshop is mainly aimed at Master’s and Ph.D. students, but attendance and participation was also be open to faculty and researchers interested in the topic of the seminar. The plenary talk by the Distinguished Lecturer took place in the morning of 3 July. In the afternoon, students presented their research work in a poster format, in order to facilitate discussions and exchange of ideas.

Benefit to the chapter: For the past few years, the 10 most important research institutions in Spain were participating in the COMONSENS project funded by the Spanish Government. The half-yearly project meetings stimulated the interchange between researchers within Spain. However, COMONSENS ended in summer 2013. In December 2014 we organised a similar workshop with Rüdiger Urbanke and Frans Willems as Distinguished Lecturers in order to conserve the momentum gained in the previous years by providing researchers from Spanish research institutions an opportunity to exchange ideas and network. We aim at transforming this event into a yearly event to strengthen the social cohesion within our chapter and motivate research collaborations.

Plans for Interaction: The seminar consists of the plenary talk by the Distinguished Lecturer and of poster presentations by Ph.D. students. This will facilitate discussions and the exchange of ideas among the participants and the Distinguished Lecturers. To encourage social interaction, we plan to further organize a banquet on 2 July and a lunch on 3 July.

Ensuring Vigorous Attendance: The COMONSENS project meetings and the 2014 Workshop were attended by about 25-30 people and we expect a similar participation for our 2015 Workshop. We have informed all Spanish IEEE members of this event, and we also have announced the event on the former COMONSENS mailing list. Finally, we will personally contact all major Spanish research institutions. A total of 25 participants attended the event.

Registration Fees: No registration fees will apply since the target attendees are Master’s and Ph.D. students. Participants will take care of their own traveling and accommodation expenses.

Workshop on Micro/Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems

Spain Chapter of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

IEEE EUROCON 2015
TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 16:30-19:30

Palacio de congresos, Cuesta de Oviedo, s/n, Salamanca, Spain

Very few social and technological revolutions in the history of humankind have become as vertiginous as the one experienced in the first decade of 21st century. In fact, it would be very difficult to explain our present society without resorting to the so-called Information Technologies, and particularly to some technological achievements such as the Internet, mobile phones and social networks. Technology downscaling toward deep nanoscale level has allowed to put billions of transistors together in a single chip, thus making it possible to integrate entire systems with increasingly number of applications, which span from consumer electronics and computing to telecom and biomedical devices.

The evolution of these technologies and their synergy with other fields of science and engineering are immersing our society into the so-called Internet of Things, in which an increasingly number of devices are being interconnected in more and more autonomous machine-to-machine infrastructures. This pervasive tendency towards a digital world, demands for efficient ways of interacting with diverse physical environments, by means of smart sensors, actuators, signal conditioning techniques and analog-digital interfaces.

In this scenario, this workshop – organized by the Spain Chapter of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – aims to present an overview of some recent advances in the design of micro/nanoelectronic circuits and systems in diverse application scenarios and case studies including automotive applications, smart sensing, interfacing brain and machines and flexible organic/printed electronics. Following an overview introduction given by the organizers, several talks presented by worldwide recognized experts in these fields will present their recent developments in micro/nanoelectronics putting emphasis on how to transfer their research and academic results to industrial products and the creation of start-ups and high-tech companies.